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ceil(3) Library Functions Manual ceil(3)
ceil, ceilf, ceill - ceiling function: smallest integral value
not less than argument
Math library (libm, -lm)
#include <math.h>
double ceil(double x);
float ceilf(float x);
long double ceill(long double x);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
ceilf(), ceill():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
These functions return the smallest integral value that is not
less than x.
For example, ceil(0.5) is 1.0, and ceil(-0.5) is 0.0.
These functions return the ceiling of x.
If x is integral, +0, -0, NaN, or infinite, x itself is returned.
No errors occur.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ ceil(), ceilf(), ceill() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001 contain text about overflow (which might
set errno to ERANGE, or raise an FE_OVERFLOW exception). In
practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine, so
this error-handling stuff was just nonsense. (More precisely,
overflow can happen only when the maximum value of the exponent
is smaller than the number of mantissa bits. For the IEEE-754
standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers the maximum
value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and the number
of mantissa bits including the implicit bit is 24 (respectively,
53).) This was removed in POSIX.1-2008.
The integral value returned by these functions may be too large
to store in an integer type (int, long, etc.). To avoid an
overflow, which will produce undefined results, an application
should perform a range check on the returned value before
assigning it to an integer type.
floor(3), lrint(3), nearbyint(3), rint(3), round(3), trunc(3)
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Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-06-16 ceil(3)
Pages that refer to this page: abs(3), fabs(3), floor(3), lrint(3), lround(3), rint(3), round(3), roundup(3), trunc(3)
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